Globalization and health

an introduction

There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health. Such impacts are diverse, encompassing global economic, political, sociocultural, technological and environmental changes. Globalization and Health ...

Reorganizing health care delivery systems

problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery

This book addresses important themes in medical sociology, with papers that range from those with an explicit policy point of view to narrower papers on more specific issues in health care delivery. One of the lessons of the past decade is that no countries in ...

The contigent valuation method in health care

an economic evaluation of Alzheimer´s disease

The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care is offered as a contribution to improving instruments of political decision making in health care. At a fundamental level, it is about methodological aspects of the contingent valuation method. It gives a holistic view of applying the contingent ...

Exclusión social y salud

balance y perspectivas

Análisis económico de la financiación pública de medicamentos

Economía y salud

economía, gestión económica y evaluación económica en el ámbito sanitario

Estructura y política farmacéutica

El presente libro es uno de los estudios más detallados y ambiciosos sobre la política farmacéutica que se ha publicado sobre el caso de España en las últimas décadas. Su objetivo es explicar la intervención del Estado en el sector farmacéutico teniendo en cuenta las ...

Variabilidad de las decisiones médicas y su repercusión sobre las poblaciones

Frontiers in health policy research

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The economics of essential medicines

Technological change in health care

a global analysis of heart attack

The economic evolution of American health care

from Marcus Welby to managed care

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles ...

Reducing inequalities in health

a european perspective

Eds. Johan Mackenbach, Martijntje Bakkler. Socio-economic inequalities in health are present to a greater or lesser extent in all European countries and it is important to monitor whether the health gap is increasing. Many studies have been conducted to explain inequalities in health and from ...

Reference pricing and pharmaceutical policy

perspectives on economics and innovation

The economics of health care

an introductory text

Introduction to public health

Frontiers in health policy research.

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Unhealthy societies

the afflictions of inequality

Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences ...

Systematic reviews in health care

meta-analysis in context

Anàlisi econòmica de la sanitat

El llibre recull l'aportació de destacats especialistes en l'anàlisi econòmica, l'economia aplicada i la gestiò i l'organització d'empreses, que, des dels seus propis camps d'estudi ofereixen reflexions sobre els reptes pendents del sector de la sanitat amb l'objectiu ...